How to find your true foundation shade without a tester!
Hi lovely readers! Today's post is very necessary information you need when shopping for makeup online or in a drugstore (they usually don't have testers).
We had a free sample pot promotion earlier on in the year when we launched online. For those of you who missed it, you haven't missed out on knowing your true foundation shade!
Find out what your undertone is. This is very easy! Just turn your wrist over and see what colour your veins are. Are they greenish? (in which case you are a YELLOW/WARM undertone which is a C-shade in Trim & Prissy Hi-def or flawless foundation and an MC-shade in our Mineral powder foundation. If the veins of your wrist are more of a blueish colour then RED/COOL is your undertone and you are an N-shade. Easy as!
Another way to know your shade is by knowing what your MAC shade is. Needless to say, MAC is the universal shade language in the makeup sphere! So head to a MAC store and ask them to colour match you. We have matched our foundations to MAC to make it easier for you to shop here! Alternatively, if you have a friend who is the same skin tone as you then ask them what their foundation shade is.
Hold the foundation bottle against your face on your jaw line. Ensure this is done under natural light for accuracy.
If you get stuck between two shades, buy them both (it's not a waste because in the long run you'll know what your true shade is). You can have a lighter shade and darker shade for when you tan or even blend them together for a custom shade!
If you ever buy the wrong shade online or in a drugstore, it's really not the end of the world because you can use it very sparingly (just on the areas you need coverage!) and you'll see for yourself it looks absolutely fine. Don't use the wrong shade all over your face unless it's Halloween (hehehe…!).
Last handy tip Trim & Prissy has for you is NEVER match your foundation on your hand! It will never be the right shade for you because your face is a different texture and colour always!
If still in doubt go to http://www.temptalia.com/foundation-matrix/scratch where every foundation shade is matched perfectly to your skin tone once you know your undertone!
Now shop! Shop! Shop! With new found confidence that you are getting your true foundation shade.


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Coordinate system
See Cartesian coordinate system or Coordinates (elementary mathematics) for a more elementary introduction to this topic.
In mathematics as applied to geometry, physics or engineering, a coordinate system is a system for assigning a tuple of scalars to each point in an n-dimensional space. "Scalars" in many cases means real numbers, but, depending on context, can mean complex numbers or elements of some other field. If the space or manifold is curved, it may not be possible to provide one consistent coordinate system for the entire space. In this case, a set of coordinate systems, called charts, are cobbled together to form an atlas for the space.
When the space has some additional algebraic structure, then the co-ordinates will also transform under rings or groups; a particularly famous example in this case are the Lie groups.
Although any specific coordinate system is useful for numerical calculations in a given space, the space itself is considered to exist independently of any particular choice of coordinates. By convention the origin of the coordinate system in Cartesian coordinates is the point (0, 0, ..., 0), which may be assigned to any given point of Euclidean space. Other coordinate systems do not, however, have a clear notion of origin. For example polar coordinates (r,θ) assign the point (x, y) = (0, 0) the value r = 0 but θ any angle.
2 Transformations
3 Systems commonly used
4 Astronomical systems
An example of a coordinate system is to describe a point P in the Euclidean space Rn by an n-tuple
P = (r1, ..., rn)
of real numbers
r1, ..., rn.
These numbers r1, ..., rn are called the coordinates of the point P.
If a subset S of a Euclidean space is mapped continuously onto another topological space, this defines coordinates in the image of S. That can be called a parametrization of the image, since it assigns numbers to points. That correspondence is unique only if the mapping is bijective.
The system of assigning longitude and latitude to geographical locations is a coordinate system. In this case the parametrization fails to be unique at the north and south poles.
A coordinate transformation is a conversion from one system to another, to describe the same space.
Some choices of coordinate systems may lead to paradoxes, for example, close to a black hole, but can be understood by changing the choice of coordinate system. At an actual mathematical singularity the coordinate system breaks down.
Systems commonly used
Some coordinate systems are the following:
The Cartesian coordinate system (also called the "rectangular coordinate system"), which, for three-dimensional flat space, uses three numbers representing distances.
For any finite-dimensional vector space and any basis, the coefficients of the basis vectors can be used as coordinates. Changing the basis is a coordinate transformation, a linear transformation that can be summarized by a matrix, and is computationally the same as a mapping of points to other points keeping the bases the same: e.g. in 2D:
a clockwise rotation is a mapping of points to other points which changes the coordinates the same as keeping the points in place but rotating the coordinate axes anti-clockwise. The rotation of coordinate systems (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Modern_Physics:Math:Vectors) is covered in depth on wikibooks.
an expansion by a factor two in the direction of one basis vector is a mapping of points to other points which changes the coordinates the same as keeping the points in place but halving the magnitude of that basis vector (in both cases the corresponding coordinate is doubled).
a mapping of points to other points which distorts a rectangle to a parallelogram changes the coordinates the same as keeping the points in place but changing the basis vectors from being two sides of that parallelogram to perpendicular ones, two sides of that rectangle.
Curvilinear coordinates are a generalization of coordinate systems generally; the system is based on the intersection of curves.
The polar coordinate systems:
Cylindrical coordinate system represents a point in space by an angle, a distance from the origin and a height.
Spherical coordinate system represents a point in space with two angles and a distance from the origin.
Geographic coordinate system
Generalized coordinates are used in the Lagrangian treatment of mechanics.
Canonical coordinates are used in the Hamiltonian treatment of mechanics.
Intrinsic coordinates describe a point upon a curve by the length of the curve to that point and the angle the tangent to that point makes with the x-axis.
Astronomical systems
Celestial coordinate system
Horizontal coordinate system
Equatorial coordinate system - based on Earth rotation
Ecliptic coordinate system - based on Solar System rotation
Galactic coordinate system - based on Milky Way rotation
extragalactic coordinate systems
supergalactic coordinate system - based on plane of local supercluster of galaxies
comoving coordinates - valid to particle horizon
Binary coordinate system
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My name is Simon and I love capybaras. I would really love to have capybara as a pet but I can´t, because I live in a block of flats. But I am currently employed in ZOO Ljubljana (Slovenia (Europe)) and somehow my dream fulfilled in a way.
There is one very special being, called Stinky.
I love Stinky so much that I am with him every and each day. It´s not my capybara, it´s ZOO ljubljana capybara but he is mine in my heart.
And if I tell you that we train agility, I´m sure you sure won´t believe me. We train approximately 1,6 year (in my free time) I started training him when he was basically adult animal (not juvenile).
I couldn't publish anything earlier because he is not my capybara.
The part with Stinky starts at 15:28.
I really hope you will enjoy the video.
In my next blog post, I am going to answer questions from my fans. If you have a question you would like me to answer, put it in a comment on this post. The question has to be about me or about capybaras in general. I'm not going to answer questions about quantum physics or the meaning of life. Let's be clear, I could answer those questions but I don't want to.
That's it for now. Except you might want to know that the Henry Vilas Zoo just got a pair of capybaras! So if your question was going to be, "Where can I see capybaras in Madison, Wisconsin?" I have already answered that.
Answers to questions posed in comments to this post can be found in the FAQ.
Look for the tab at the top of the page.
I was out in California last week to visit my sister and I couldn't pass up the chance to visit the world famous San Diego Zoo. Last time I was there, about five years ago, they did not have capybaras but I knew that they had a band of them now and I couldn't wait to see them. Of course, I brought my two plush capybaras, Capycoppy (left) and Super Capy (right) with me. I also brought Double Decoy, the guinea pig in the middle. There's nothing like going around taking photos of plush animals in a crowded area to make you feel crazy.
If you are in the UK you must go see these three adorable capybara babies as the Chessington Zoo! And follow this link for more adorable photos on ZooBorns.com.


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What's Next, Malaysia's premiere digital meets brick-and-mortar conference, where Tan Sri Tony Fernandez famously declared in 2015 that AirAsia was in fact an Internet company, is back for the fourth year on August 30, 2018 at Le Meridien Kuala Lumpur.
In an exciting addition to the lineup of brick and mortar leaders talking about how they are dealing with digital disruption, EY is bringing its world class Digital Roadshow experience to Malaysia and only at What's Next 2018.
EY experts from around Asia will be showcasing various digital solutions that are today helping brick and mortar businesses take advantage of digital instead of being disrupted by digital.
At the same time come listen to Henry Tan, chief corporate and consumer office of Astro holdings Malaysia Berhad share key lesson has learnt about facing disruption and come listen to the global condom king, MK Goh of Karex Berhad, the world's largest condom manufacture talk about how his brick and mortar business is facing digital disruption.
Not forgetting Khailee Ng managing partner of 500 Startups who will talk about the coming disruption and opportunities from Deep Tech.
And many more exciting speakers. All only at What's Next 2018.
Despite their differences in nationalities and cultural backgrounds, 30 students from 15 nations under the BA (Hons) International Relations programme at Asia Pacific University of Technology & Innovation (APU) came together for an out-of-classroom learning trip to the Russian Centre for Science and Culture, under the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Malaysia.
The multicultural visiting group comprised students from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Kashmir, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Myanmar, Pakistan, Russia, Seychelles, Somali Land, Sri Lanka, United Arab Emirates and Zambia.
Alexander V. Antipov, First Secretary conducted a guest lecture for APU's International Relations students on Russian foreign policies and the nation's efforts in promoting Sustainable Development Goals.
Alexander V. Antipov, First Secretary and Maxim A. Salnikov, Second Secretary, Press-Attaché at the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Malaysia conducted a 45-minute guest lecture that exposed the students towards Russia's foreign policy on preserving national security, as well as the roles of Russia in Sustainable Development Goals in promoting world peace and a secure global environment.
Questions related to Russia's interest in foreign policies as well as issues in world politics were among the topics that were actively discussed amongst the students together with the officials from the Russian Embassy.
Apart from having the opportunity to interact with the Russian diplomats directly, Togoo was also one of the 30 students who had the first-hand experience trying on traditional Russian folk costumes and reading about ornate religious and cultural symbols during the visit.
This visit was one of the 5 to 6 visits scheduled by APU's School of Marketing and Media to encourage the development of International Relations students' knowledge towards cultural environments and world affairs in the era of globalization.
said Dr. Devinder Kaur, Head of School of Marketing and Media, APU.
What wouldn't you do for your children's education?
Asian parents place much emphasis on academic excellence and are willing to make sacrifices to give their children the best education they can afford; sometimes even when they can't afford to.
Given the less-than-stellar quality of Malaysian public education, the sacrifices are real.
Many observers look back to the good old days when the Malaysian education was regarded as second to none in Asia. Oh how far we have fallen!
Alas, the oft-quoted maxim "Those who can't do, teach" now rings too close for comfort.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) highlighted weaknesses in teacher competencies as a serious impediment to overall education quality in Malaysia, attributing that partly to the low quality of applicants to teacher education institutes. In 2010, a mind-boggling 93% of Bachelor of Education applicants at these institutes scored below the minimum academic requirement (Ministry of Education Malaysia, 2012)! Would you wager things have significantly improved since?
Tuition classes to supplement the insufficient learning from public schools are common; a necessity even, some might argue. Hours robbed from one's childhood can never be recovered.
The OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) global rankings on student performance in mathematics, reading, and science highlights the dismal proficiency of Malaysian students on these subjects. PISA is an exam administered every three years to measure 15-year-olds in 72 countries.
While Singapore consistently topped all three, Malaysia's scores stayed below average. In 2015, Malaysia scored 446 in mathematics (vs. average: 490) , 431 in reading (vs. 493) and 443 in science (vs. 493), albeit an improvement from 2012. Granted Singapore has long left Malaysia far behind in many socio-economic aspects, with education being just one. But losing even to Vietnam?!
Much has been said about students entering universities lacking mastery in basic mathematic skills, reasoning and proof, and not being able to make connections in other disciplines. And of unemployable university graduates, some of whom are incapable of stringing a single coherent sentence in English.
Alas, Malaysia's education system seems to lack long-term planning. Education policies often get changed every few years before they could deliver results – it feels like we're in a perpetual state of experimentation in respect to curriculum, teaching methodology, evaluation and even medium of instruction.
Perhaps the most disruptive and controversial in recent years was the flip-flop on using English as the medium to teach science and mathematics in schools – the policy was introduced in January 2003, and reversed in July 2009.
No one likes their children to be experimented upon. The perceived lack of certainty in education policies pushed many parents to consider private schools.
Amid the dwindling confidence in our school system, international schools are thriving.
There used to be a 40% cap on Malaysians permitted to enrol in international schools. With the cap removed in 2012, some international schools are now predominantly filled with Malaysian students.
According to a 2017 report by the International School Consultancy Research (ISC), Malaysia has 170 international schools with a total of 71,589 students. Education Destination Malaysia's 2017/18 guidebook highlights 140 international schools.
The cost to put a child through private school ranges from RM12,000 to over RM120,000 per year, excluding other fees such as boarding. Then there's the 5-10% annual increase.
Education Destination Malaysia estimates RM30,000-50,000 as roughly what it would cost to put your child through a year of primary education in a mid-cost international school. According to its data, Sri Kuala Lumpur (probably the most sought-after international school) has relatively affordable annual tuition fees of RM15,300-RM29,600 (excluding other fees). But you'll have to jostle other parents for a spot – the waiting list is crazy long!
Getting a spot in Malaysia's public universities is also highly competitive. The racial quota in local universities makes it harder for minorities to be accepted for highly sought-after courses. Under the government's affirmative action programme, 55% of university places went to Bumiputeras. Upon the abolishment of the race quota, matriculation was introduced as an alternative to Sijil Tinggi Persekolahan Malaysia (STPM). But it has been highly criticised for being markedly easier than STPM, and serves as an easier path for Bumiputeras, for whom 90% of the places are reserved.
Those who can't get a spot in local universities for a course they want may have no choice but study in private universities. Ringgitplus.com estimates that it cost an average of RM7,000 to pursue a local public university course while local private universities charge 3-5 times that or more, depending on the course. Moreover, the cost of studying in a private university keeps increasing much faster than inflation.
Asia Pacific University of Technology & Innovation (APU) unveiled the new iconic campus in 2017 that is strategically located in Technology Park Malaysia (TPM), Bukit Jalil. APU is a top-notch University recognised as a Premier Digital University by MDEC and was rated 5-Stars at the SETARA 2017 Ratings by Ministry of Higher Education.
APU's Campus blends technology, integration, innovation and creativity under one roof. Designed by award-winning consultants and architects, APU's new iconic campus provides not just a university learning environment, but also a lively community spot for our students to formulate new ideas, gain intellectual growth and discover new adventures.
Strategically located within TPM, Bukit Jalil, the APU's new iconic campus provides high accessibility through major highways from Puchong, Subang, Petaling Jaya and the heart of Kuala Lumpur. Apart from providing ample parking spaces on-campus for students and staff, the campus is surrounded by a wide array of public transportation, such as the Bukit Jalil LRT station and Terminal Bas Selatan @ Bandar Tasik Selatan. TPM, the technology park that also houses Astro, Mimos, Jaring and other various technological companies, is the ideal location for this contemporary campus, due to its strong positioning as Malaysia's primary hub for leading-edge and high-tech developments in a wide variety of areas.
Well-trained academics at APU offer intensive knowledge sharing sessions in class, by making use of the highly-reliable educational technology within the APU's New Iconic Campus.
Being a university student can be one's most exciting expeditions, where dreams are realized and the future is envisioned. The expedition starts at The Spine – a distinctive and unique feature that stretches from the main entrance all the way to the far end of the campus. While providing seamless connectivity to all areas within the campus, The Spine also aims to establish a community aspect for the university – where integration is the key. Covered walkways that extends from the Spine further promotes connectivity and cultivates exchange of ideas among students from different disciplines and academics, through the series of 'intelligent' teaching, learning, research, and social spaces spanning from the Spine. Within the Spine, a vibrant array of academic, leisure and social activities take place on a daily basis; it is not only the heart of the campus but also the nurturing ground for world-changing global ideas. APU's Centre Point, which located at the center of the Spine serves as a melting pot of cultures from all over the world, where cultural activities are organized regularly at the campus, fostering long-lasting intercultural relationships among APU students, who come from over 110 countries.
Through a stylish blend of functionality & accessibility, APU's new iconic campus sets a new benchmark for design excellence among Malaysian Universities. Highlighting the importance of transparency, the campus makes extensive use of glass to limit physical barriers between people. Teaching and learning facilities are redesigned to suit the needs of the industry, in line with the Industrial Revolution 4.0, a strong emphasis on cooperative learning is reflected at APU's new iconic campus, through the abundance of communal spaces and discussion areas, where aspiring young minds come together to formulate innovative ideas. Wings spreading out from the Spine offer creative spaces intended to foster self-directed learning and teaching. Highly conducive teaching & learning spaces, study lounges, studios, laboratories, tutorial rooms, breakout rooms and syndicate rooms sit alongside modern, fully equipped lecture theatres where core knowledge is taught by well qualified academics. All spaces are carefully designed to create an unforgettable learning and lifestyle experience that lasts for a lifetime, while enabling professional learning and cultivating global mindsets.
State-of-the-art lecture halls and classrooms provides a comfortable and sophisticated learning experience to students during lecture and tutorial sessions.
The APU Library sits as a core of the Knowledge Commons, providing an intelligent space for exceptional learning experiences. Apart from the wide array of book selections, e-books, e-journals and other resources, the library also positions itself as a popular spot for interactive discussions and creative brainstorming sessions, in line with our teaching strategy that encourages open, multidisciplinary approaches. The contemporary two-floor library features an abundant array of discussion rooms that are well-equipped with LCD TVs, providing the facilities for students to gear up for their professional presentations, debates and group assessments. At another corner, the Bean Bag zone provides maximum comfort to students who wish to create and share knowledge in a casual yet aspiring way. A soundproof Quiet Zone is designed exclusively for students who prefer a quiet and cozy study environment for their upcoming exams and assessments.
By incorporating cutting-edge technologies, APU students will be able to keep up with the latest technological trends and equip themselves with necessary skills to be a highly-employable graduate.
At APU, we aspire to ensure success in our students' future careers, granting them ability to combat the global challenges that lie ahead. The campus is a unique fusion of technology, innovation and creativity, to reflect our identity as Malaysia's leading technological university. Apart from being a vibrant campus, APU's new iconic campus is also established as a smart campus, where reliable high-speed wireless internet access and cashless payment systems combine to create a whole new level of campus lifestyle experience.
APU's graduates are self-starting, innovative problem solvers with skills attuned to their particular professions. They are capable, enterprising and entrepreneurial, and hence highly employable. Our educational technology environment supports the development of graduates of this calibre, in which well-equipped computing and engineering laboratories with advanced software, hardware and technologies place students at the forefront of technological excellence. By applying the latest technology and design, the campus supports a vibrant community of scholars, who will eventually become highly-employable working professionals, and commit to engaged, reflective learning and research in a connected, interactive environment.
The Atrium, located at the center of the campus, serves as a melting pot of cultures from over 110 countries at APU.
Studying away from home is an experience of a lifetime. At APU's new iconic campus, the experience is made an unforgettable one, as the on-campus accommodation aspires to amalgamate comfort and security at the same time. Built within the campus grounds, all dormitories have en-suite facilities, where students are accorded maximum comfort and privacy. The residential blocks can be independently accessed from the main university teaching zones, providing ultimate accessibility and convenience to its tenants. In addition, a fitness sweatzone and student lounge provide spaces for relaxation and socialization throughout the day.
APU's New Iconic Campus features an abundant array of communal spaces, in line with our teaching strategy that promotes interaction and active sharing of knowledge.
The APU's New Iconic Campus is a campus made ready for the world, to nurture professional graduates who are career-ready upon graduation. To date, the global campus houses 11,000 students who came from 110 countries. For more information, please visit our website www.apu.edu.my, email [email protected], or contact student services at +603 8996 1000 or hotline 1 300 888 278. To be connected, join us on APU Facebook at www.facebook.com/apuniversity.
Seven volunteers saw a need for a good library to serve their community, and they pooled in their resources together to create the Mini Oasis in Bandar Menjalara.
The name is fitting, as it conjures the image of a wellspring of knowledge.
Located just one floor above Restoran Yi Yan on Jalan Medan Putra 1, Mini Oasis provides good reading materials to the local community.
Because of its strategic location, young children can enjoy their reading here while their parents have a sumptuous meal downstairs.
With the help of six others, Thai Yew Kuan, Jessie Yap Suet See, Karuna Chi Hui Fong, Tan Han Bin, Mandy Wong Shiang Hua and Ching Chen Seng, Mini Oasis today has a total collection of 10,973 books.
Based on his observations, most government-funded libraries have very limited number of books, especially when it comes to Chinese literature. Most of the Chinese books here are imported directly from mainland China and Taiwan.
To date, they have a very good collection of books and magazines, including National Geographic in Chinese, a full set of books on world history, and even children's comic books.
Occasionally, Moan also conducts science experiments and explain to children how static electricity is generated.
Mini Oasis is located at 9, Jalan Medan Putra 1, Kepong, 52200 Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan.
Emas International School, Malaysia's First Entrepreneurial School, has been awarded a vaunted spot to be part of the global Endeavor network at Endeavor's International Selection Panel (ISP) in New York last month.
Endeavor is leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement around the world and works to catalyse long-term economic growth by selecting, mentoring, and accelerating the best high-impact entrepreneurs worldwide.
among just 26 entrepreneurs from 13 countries who were selected to join Endeavor Network at the 74th ISP in Brooklyn, New York. Panellists at the event included top business leaders and investors who were drawn from Endeavor's extensive network of board members, mentors, and supporters. The ISP is the culmination of a rigorous multi-step selection process to identify innovative and driven entrepreneurs who are committed to advancing an ecosystem of entrepreneurship.
"The amazing entrepreneurs and high-impact businesses we saw convene this week in Brooklyn demonstrate all of the entrepreneurial potential still waiting to be uncovered around the world," said Endeavor Co-Founder and CEO Linda Rottenberg.
ACE EdVenture's Anne Tham added: "It is an honour for us. We now have access to the resources, mentoring, consultation, funding, talents of the top entrepreneurs and corporate leaders in 30 countries for the next 20 years or more. They will work very closely with us to make sure that we get to where we need to go anywhere in the world".
The partnership between the ACE EdVenture Group and Endeavor raises the profile of Dwi Emas on the international level, and significantly expands the network of top tier entrepreneurs associated with the school. This tie-up fits in seamlessly with the company's long-term vision of growing its Entrepreneurial Ecosystem which connects the students, parents and teachers of Dwi Emas – to the world of successful pioneers and trailblazers globally.
This selection makes ACE EdVenture one out of only 31 education companies Endeavor has ever selected. With only 978 companies across 30 growth markets chosen out of 50,000 over the past 20 years, it makes Malaysia's ACE EdVenture Group part of a very elite group of entrepreneurs. The criteria of the businesses chosen were making a social impact, building an empowering ecosystem, impacting the next generation as well as the economy by providing jobs.
In New York, panellists from around the world interviewed entrepreneur candidates about their businesses, evaluating them on their potential for high-impact growth. Once selected, Endeavor Entrepreneurs gain access to comprehensive customized services, including introductions to local and international business mentors and volunteers from Fortune 500 consulting firms who will help them address key needs. Endeavor Entrepreneurs have had a significant track record of creating hundreds of thousands of jobs, generating billions of dollars in revenues, and building sustainable growth models in their home countries.


UCD was an utter disaster for me. A complete kick to the gut. The groups were so haywire that I was sure there was some sort of deep problem with my match prep or shot routine, and that would mean that months of work was wasted.
Hint: It's the ruler. The two floor panels come together to form a reference line of sorts that I'd been using subconsciously while training, but while that line is parallel to the line to the target, it's about four inches forward of it. So when I laid down the ruler in UCD and built the position around that, I was building the position perfectly — but four inches to the left of where it should have been.
There's an upside to this — ie. it's a simple fix. But it's really annoying that such a small stupid mistake cost so much.
Posted on June 17, 2011 by Mark Dennehy in Training and tagged Air Rifle, rifle, Rika, UCDRC, WTSC.
Arrived at the range, stretched (need to buy a yoga mat for this, you wouldn't believe how dusty the floor of a rifle range can get…) and warmed up, and started shooting with Matt watching. A few dry-fire shots to get settled into position, and then some live shots. And it was fairly obvious within those few shots that the cheekpiece change from yesterday isn't working. The position felt loose and unstable and imprecise. Rolled the change back, chalked it up to being an idiot. Lesson learnt, a simple quick fix never is!
...and back to this again.
That done, back to the live-firing, and Matt had me focussing on settling properly, first during the pre-aim, then above the target, and only then pausing breathing and letting the target sink onto the target and settle for the shot. The results weren't too shabby, but lots more practice needed.
Posted on May 28, 2011 by Mark Dennehy in Training and tagged Air Rifle, Electronic Targets, Megalink, NaturalPointofAim, Rika, WTSC.


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Skylights for the Soul
My wife, Dianna, will soon have a couple of skylights in her studio to let the light shine in. The project got me thinking about what we have to do to let the light shine into our own lives. It seems to me that there are two problems. One is that we are too eager to sing "This little light of mine" when, in plain fact, we do not have a light, little or otherwise. The other is that we give too little thought to the work required to allow God's light to shine into us, much less through us to others.
I continue to struggle with the discontinuity between what we profess, and sometimes sing about, in worship and how that gets lived out in daily life. Maybe my angst comes from living in a conservative region where the few who profess to be Christian also tend toward the politics of rugged individualism based on a social ethic firmly rooted in the brambles of 19th century laissez faire with no apparent awareness of how much their own lives have been made possible by public policies that have organized collective resources for their benefit.
At the same time, I wonder how I, as pastor and teacher, can be more effective in helping those whom I am called to lead to adopt whatever personal disciplines will work for them that will allow God's light to shine into their souls. While I'm at it, I wonder about that for myself as well. Perhaps you do also. What is needed for there to be skylights of the soul? How many have them and what do they say about them? How many know they don't, and what do they have to say about that? How many don't have a clue one way or the other, and don't care?
Labels: Theology
Rural Clergy as Teams?
I attended a regional clergy gathering yesterday. Between active and retired clergy I think there were maybe fifteen of us, plus the bishop. We were gathered from an area extending maybe 160 miles from one end to the other in which there are ten parishes that, on a map, are strung out on an arcing line following the Yakima and Columbia River valleys. It was a good meeting, a reunion of sorts for clergy who are not very often able to gather like this.
We began, like good clergy do, with a little prayer and bible study, notably Ephesians 4.11-16 in which we are called to equip the saints for the work of ministry to build up the body of Christ. There were three questions for reflection that were to lead our group discussion:
In what ways do we, as a clergy team, honor the diversity of gifts among us?
In what ways doe we, as a clergy team, cultivate the unity that God intends for us?
In what ways can our example "promote the body's growth here in our diocese?
I had a problem with the questions and it centered on the word team. What is a team? Think of the teams you know about or played on. At some level they are organized, trained, disciplined and coordinated to pursue a common goal within certain rules of engagement. I am on some church teams in our diocese. The boards and committees on which I serve are teams that work pretty well. I am on some teams here in town; one at the local Adventist hospital is especially rewarding since they have made room for and honored my presence as an Episcopalian.
The group gathered around the table at yesterday's clergy meeting was not a team. We are colleagues in some sense. For the most part, we are genuinely fond of each other. We even work together in twos and threes from time to time and for particular reasons. Each of us, in our own congregations, has teams with which we work, but as a group gathered for this day of collegiality and prayer, a day which we will not see again for many months, we are not a team. It was a good day. We rejoiced in each other's company. We all think we should do it more often, but our lives filled with congregational leadership, families and community obligations make it unlikely.
Noting the rural nature of our diocese with its long distances between towns and cities, the old bugaboo of isolation was raised, but it seemed to sink almost as fast as it arose. We are not isolated, we are separated by distance. Isolation evokes images of solitary confinement in which one either has no access to others or is prevented from enjoying whatever access might be around. We are not isolated unless we choose to be isolated. We are separated by long distances, and, if we want the face-to-face company of other Episcopal clergy, it takes some effort to make that happen.
That brings up the issue of honoring the diversity of gifts among us. Because we are not able to socialize frequently as a group, we really don't know each other well enough to know what gifts each may have. That is not universally true. There are clusters of clergy, two here, three there, who live near each other, like each other, and get together often enough to know each other quite well. But as a group? No.
In the end, I believe that the desire to see widely dispersed clergy in a rural area working together as a well oiled team is an impractical expectation. What is both desirable and practical is the expectation that they can become more collegial, and that's a good thing.
Do You Love Jesus?
Do you love Jesus? It's a common question. You've heard it before. I guess if you can get the answer down in the right way, you've got it made. Just the same, I think it's the wrong question. When Jesus asked Peter if he loved him, he intended the question to set the stage for Peter to become a shepherd in his own right. So the question, however tempting is not whether we love Jesus but whether we love others as Jesus loved us.
That's a problem. It's an easy thing for Christians to say that they love Jesus, either because they know they are supposed to say it, or because they believe that they really do love Jesus. It is not an easy thing to love others as Jesus loved us. That requires that we pay close attention to the incarnate Christ, observing how he interacted with others. What did he do? What did he say? How did he act? Paying close attention to these things is what will guide us toward what it means to love one another as he loved us.
One thing stands out. He was fully present to each person he encountered regardless of the noise and chaos surrounding them. He was full of questions showing genuine interest in what the other wanted, was thinking or needed. More often than not he firmly but gently led others into a deeper understanding of God and the kingdom of God that was at hand. Even when addressing crowds he spoke to them in the places where they were, illustrating his points with stories invoking the common things of ordinary, daily life. He did not avoid controversy but met it head on, rarely showing his temper and even then mostly with his own closest followers.
Not long ago a colleague asked a group of clergy how they would respond to someone who wanted to know how they do what they do when face-to-face with traumatic situations. Most of them responded by giving testimony about their faith in Christ and inviting the hypothetical questioner to do the same. What would Jesus do? Not that, I suspect. The gospels lead me to think that he would have asked his petitioner to say more, prompting him or her to probe a little deeper to allow the central God question to rise to the surface and then go from there. I suppose a philosopher would call it probing for the prior question.
Loving others as Jesus loved us requires that sort of patience and willingness to meet the other in the place where they are, and you can't meet them there unless you are willing to be there with them. That's hard work. It's so much easier just to say you love Jesus and let it go at that.
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Of Gangs and Parasites
Gangs are a problem in many communities in our part of the country. For the most part they have migrated up from California along drug distribution routes and preyed mostly, but not exclusively, on young first and second generation Mexican immigrants. Our valley had been spared most of it until recently, but slime tends to spread into unlikely places if it can find a path of little resistance. And so, perhaps due to our own complacency, we seem to have a gang problem just like many others in the Pacific Northwest.
Whatever else they are, gangs are essentially parasitic. They can only exist if there is a reasonably healthy host community on which to feed. They add nothing of value and their only product is the erosion and slow death of the good things of community life. When illegal drugs are added to the formula, as they often are, they make users and addicts in our community directly complicit in the ravages of rape and killing rampant among the drug lord wars south of the border.
The motivation for gang membership has been explained in many ways, and perhaps it is asking too much for middle school age recruits to think about gangs as parasites. But it's not asking too much to be assertive about letting gang leaders know that they are parasites. And it's not too much to ask that the community itself do its own hard work of self inoculation against parasitic infection. For instance, I've heard several well informed citizens argue for more resources for law enforcement to deal with gangs. Good for them, but it's not enough. The community cannot rely on the police and sheriff's office to do all the work. It's not just a law enforcement problem. It's a problem that has something to do with our willingness to tolerate community conditions that invite and nourish parasitic gangs. Education, housing, racism, neighborhood conditions, neighborhood leadership, public health, access to personal health care, economic development providing jobs with some hope for a decent standard of living, all that and more are conditions that must be addressed to create an environment in which the community prospers and gangs don't.
It's not an easy task. Communities that dump it all in the laps of law enforcement can expect little more than rear guard actions. Communities that try to get by on the cheap, who, in miserly anxiety, are afraid to invest in present and future needs for a healthy community, are just setting themselves up for gangs to prosper. Our community is proud of its fiscal conservatism. When that turns into mean spirited cheapness, the doors to decline are opened wide and parasitic infection is invited in.
Sex and the Golden Man
I attended a lecture Arthur Schlesinger maybe twenty-five years ago in which, reflecting on his recent book, he talked about the impending tribalization of America. It was happening, he said, but it was not a good thing. Someone asked what was needed to counteract it. Sex, he said. Michener had a similar thought in his 60s era book, Hawaii, where he idealized the "Golden Man," the Hawaiian of whom it could not be said which race was his dominant feature.
I thought about that when I officiated at my Goddaughter's wedding a few days ago. The melange of what we usually call characteristics of ethnicity and race (whatever that means) made it impossible to say for certain who was there, using those old stereotypes. European, African, Hispanic and Indian were mixed in such complex ways that the most one might say is that these are Americans.
It's still common to want to put people into clearly marked boxes that we assign to skin color: black, white, brown, etc. To that we often demand the addition of ethnic or cultural identifiers such as: African, Mexican, Chinese, Caribbean, and, of course, Ordinary, meaning white Northern European fully immersed in the cultural ethnicity of Middle America. Needless to say, rank and file Ordinary people would take issue with that as they claim their unique ways of being Southern, New Englanders, Northern Californians, etc. It's a dubious claim, but if it makes them feel better it's OK with me.
The point is that something new is happening, and it's happening among a new generation that rejoices in their ethnic heritage without letting it strangle their self identity or shutter their engagement with others who are not like themselves. I doubt if Michener's Golden Man will ever emerge as the norm, but Schlesinger was right, plain old sex is making a difference.
A National Consensus on being American
Somewhere back in the early '80s, I wrote an essay asserting that the cultural disequilibrium caused by the civil war was not finally worked out until the voting rights act of a hundred years later. At the same time, I opined that the cultural upheaval of the Vietnam Era might take almost as long to work itself out. It was during that period when long trusted symbols and institutions of American cultural stability were challenged by all and rejected by many, but nothing was offered in their place.
The roles of the church, women, sex, marriage, fraternal organizations, business and government were called into question. If no one over thirty could be trusted, then no one could be trusted. Almost forty years have gone by, and I don't think we've got it worked out yet. The current media driven popularity of Tea Party type politics and the hard right wing turn in Congress, is, in my opinion, the death throes of a time gone by, a time recalled in heavily filtered memories of the 1950s. They accuse the president of having no new ideas, but all of theirs are relics of a former age that have never been successful in promoting economic or social well being. Their only achievement has been to make the rich richer, the middle class poorer, and the poor locked in the prison of their poverty. The Horatio Alger rags to riches yardstick for what anyone can do with a little pluck and hard work is true mostly in romantic fiction, seeing reality in a few well known cases where pluck and hard work were aided by extraordinary circumstances of good luck frequently abetted by ethically challenged cunning.
However, the current dominance of that kind of so called conservatism raises an interesting question. What happened to all the hippie radicals of former decades? There weren't that many of them to begin with. They just made a lot of noise, not unlike the hard right wingers of today. Moreover, someone once said that today's radicals are tomorrow's stuffed shirts. So who knows? What about all the ordinary liberals? The left wing, hard nosed community organizer Saul Alinsky (Rules for Radicals) had no love for rank and file liberals whom he considered to be weak kneed, bumbling, incompetent do-gooders lacking the courage to do the hard work of political change. Maybe he was right. In any case, it is today's right wingers who have learned how to apply Alinsky's methods to their brand of politics.
The point is that the national consciousness, if there is such a thing, has not yet figured out what it means to be an American in a way that the country can more or less agree to. Anxiety surrounding the aftermath of 9/11 has not helped. It has only fertilized the ground for seeds of unwarranted fear and xenophobic hysteria aided and abetted by the worst of yellow journalism. One possible outcome could be the election of a right wing government in 2012. That would drive the nation into the nether world of an even deeper recession accompanied by attempts to restrict civil liberties while unleashing opportunities for greater domestic violence and environmental degradation. If elected, it would be the government we deserve. It might also be the bitter medicine we need to swallow so that we can come to more stable national consensus of who we want to be as classically liberal Americans.
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The Art and Artifice of Begging
We saw quite a few beggars in both Barcelona and Paris, cities where we spent enough time to get around on our own. They seemed to come in three sets. The first were women of an uncertain age, always dressed in something that looked vaguely North African. Some came, cup thrust out, in a straightforward, pleading way, offering a very well rehearsed and abundantly sarcastic thank you when no coin was given. Others assumed prayer poses in the middle of the sidewalk where they would stay motionless for a very long time. It's just a con, we were warned, and I agree, but they were still excruciatingly poor and their form of begging is humiliating, hard work with little to show for it at the end of the day. I noticed that those most likely to give a coin were truck and cab drivers, and other less poor people passing by.
The second set were young men who set up blankets in public places on which they displayed cheap trinkets for sale. I'm not sure but suspect that they were well warned to scoot at the first sign of police. They also were very poor and, for the most part, sufficiently unclean to be smelled before seen. The third set were young women looking less poor and a good deal cleaner who professed to be deaf mutes seeking signatures and donations for a deaf charity. They were in many places, but we enjoyed watching one group in lively conversation on the steps of a church during their break.
Who knows, maybe they are all related in some way. Outright begging, shoddy merchandise and gentle scams all add up to one thing. They are still poor, and it is a lousy, humiliating way to make a living. Probably the best thing about it is the psychological payoff to have separated some money from "the rich" thus achieving some small sense of victory. Who are "the rich?" For them it was anyone who gave a coin or bought a piece of junk. As I said, I think most of that came from people only a little better off. The rich do give, but it's mostly through pickpocketing.
We rich tourists may not like it much. What we don't have is any right to be smug or haughty as is our wont to do.
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Reentering the Womb
We went on our first cruise many years ago. It was the Alaska cruise up the inland passage in celebration of my parents fiftieth wedding anniversary. The whole family went as it then existed, all sixteen of us. None of our children were married yet. One nephew was young enough that we worried about his whereabouts and safety. The excitement of it all, the novelty of a ship and the extraordinary scenery made it a trip of a lifetime that each of us remembers as the very best time.
The years have fled. Our children are now in their forties. Our oldest grandchild has her drivers license. By age alone I have become the patriarch of the family. A few years ago we rediscovered cruising as a way to see parts of the world that we might not otherwise have the chance. To be sure, it's only a sampling, but one can experience and learn a lot from observant sampling. We recently returned from Europe on a trip that included, as part of it, a cruise from England, across the Channel to stops in Holland, Belgium, France, Portugal and Spain.
It was on that part of the trip that I began to think of the cruise ship as a womb experience, which may help explain why it is such a popular way of travel. The womb is the ultimate safe haven in which the developing child has every need met without asking and without responsibility. Birth is the traumatic exit from that Eden into a world in which demands must be made, responsibility learned and consequences endured. No wonder psychological theory has often focussed on the womb and birth as a key to emotional problems in adulthood. No matter how much we might like it, we cannot return to the secure, nourishing environment of the womb. Or maybe we can.
A cruise ship is something like a womb for adults. It is, even on the largest ships, a tightly compact, secure place in which every need is provided. Nourishment in almost any form is provided day and night. Staterooms are cleaned and replenished as if by magic. Entertainment abounds in every venue. Pools, spas and workout rooms pamper the body. The digitally encoded ship's ID card establishes one's right to be on board, and gives the added illusion of the ability to afford whatever one wants at any time with a simple swipe and a personal thank you by name. At ports of call one can experience something like birth by leaving the ship and entering an alien world. Like newborns everywhere, the newly birthed are often whisked off to nurseries in the shape of tour busses attended by nurses in the form of English speaking guides. The more adventuresome can go on their own, but like toddlers everywhere they seldom go far. They test their new freedom with some apprehension and are generally quick to return.
Unlike the reality of human birth, cruise passengers are able to reenter the womblike security of the ship at the end of each day's landing. And I think this is key. For many, the psychologically infantile desire to reenter the womb may be little more than a fantasy worked out on the therapist's couch, but I suspect that it is a subconsciously lived reality for many cruise ship passengers. The womb can be reentered! Security, for a price, can again be yours. The excitement of new birth at each port is made less anxiety ridden by the sure and certain knowledge that the womb awaits one's return. I suspect that is also why the last night on board is so difficult for many. It is time to leave the fantasy of the infantile and reenter the world of the adult in which the maternal womb is not even a memory.


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Q: web.confing ipSecurity IP deny entries are not denied Windows Server 2019 with IIS 10.
I'm trying to configure a list of "deny IP" entries in the IIS web.config (see below), but the IPs are not blocked. At the same time if we enter the same IPs manually, via the IIS Manager (IP Address and Domain Restriction feature), the IPs get blocked as expected.
The web.config is in the default location (the root folder for the Default Web Site) and is reduced to the very minimum, just to troubleshoot a single IP (expecting 69.122.29.94 to be blocked):
C:\inetpub\wwwroot\web.config
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
    <location path="Default Web Site">
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                <ipSecurity allowUnlisted="true">
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                </ipSecurity>
            </security>
        </system.webServer>
    </location>
</configuration>

I cannot figure out what can be wrong?
Thanks..

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27 Sept - 1 Oct 2021 (TBC)
UniMoves
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UniSport 100
Celebrating 100 years of UniSport in 2021
UniSport Australia (UniSport) is delighted to be celebrating our 100th anniversary in 2021.
UniSport dates our history to 1921 when Sydney University Sports Union, Melbourne University Sports Union, Adelaide University Sports Union and University of Queensland Sports Union established the Australian University Sports Association (AUSA). The objectives of the association were to manage inter-university and special university contests, to determine the eligibility of teams and to manage any matter affecting university sport in which more than one university was interested. Now called UniSport Australia, we have grown to represent 43 tertiary institution members across Australia.
Some of the early contested sports included athletics, baseball, boat races, boxing, cricket, Australian Rules football, rugby, golf, hockey, lacrosse, rifle shooting, swimming, water polo and tennis. Women's competitions existed in basketball, hockey and tennis. Today, UniSport offers more than 40 sports in the Nationals and Leagues programs, with competitions offered in men's, women's, mixed and open categories.
In 1967, Australia became an International Federation of University Sport (FISU) Member Association, and to this day remains an active member and participant in FISU programs. There have been four World University Championships hosted in Australia; windsurfing (Wollongong, 1994), table tennis (Geelong, 1996), squash (Melbourne, 2010) and sailing (Perth, 2016).
The Australian UniRoos are the team of student-athletes who compete internationally. Since 1959, Australia has been represented by 3,037 athletes and officials at the FISU Summer World University Games and 292 at the Winter World University Games.
In 2021, many student-athletes will fulfil their Olympic dream when they compete in Tokyo. UniSport works closely with university elite athlete programs to support student-athletes as they strive for national, Commonwealth Games and Olympic representation. Olympic medalists Matt Denny (athletics), Cate Campbell (swimming) and Catherine Skinner (shooting) are just a few of the outstanding student-athletes who have combined a successful sporting career with university study, achieving great sporting and academic feats.
Following a merger of AUSA and Australian Tertiary Education Sports Association (ATESA), the Australian Universities Sports Federation Inc. (AUSF) was formed in 1992.
The first elected Board of Directors included Ann Mitchell, OAM (President), Paul Manning (University of Wollongong), Doug Ellis (Monash University), Bruce Meakins (The University of Western Australia), Paul Brooks (Queensland University of Technology) and Hugh McKechnie (La Trobe University). In 1998, AUSF's headquarters relocated from Sydney to Brisbane, where UniSport's head office still resides.
At the 1999 AGM, it was resolved to amend AUSF Inc. to Australian University Sport Inc. (AUS) and adopt a unified governance structure. With the introduction of the Voluntary Student Unionism legislation in 2006, AUS received $10 million in Regional Universities Development funding over four years to offset the impact of VSU. In 2011, the Australian Parliament passed legislation allowing universities to charge a Student Services and Amenities Fee (SSAF), to fund amenities such as sporting facilities, providing some relief to universities.
The 2011 AGM approved the migration to a company limited by guarantee and a shifted responsibility for membership from sport delivery agents to universities.
In 1993, the first Australian University Games (AUGs) were hosted in Brisbane. The games, Australia's largest annual multi-sport competition, were held for 25 years, with events hosted in every state and territory (except Tasmania), culminating in its final edition in 2017 on the Gold Coast. 2015 Gold Coast was its largest year with more than 8,000 students competing across 32 sports.
The most recent change for the organisation was in 2018 when AUS re-branded as UniSport Australia. This coincided with the launch of the Nationals program; comprising of the flagship event, Nationals Div 1 and Div 2 as well as a number of standalone Nationals Championship events held throughout the year. In 2021, the third year of Nationals will be hosted on the Gold Coast, attracting more than 7,000 participants from all 43 member universities to compete in over 30 sports.
Another key milestone in the 2021 calendar, will be the 25th anniversary of the Indigenous Nationals. The National Indigenous Tertiary Education Student Games (NITESG) began in 1996 as a class project between 13 students enrolled at the Wollotuka Institute at The University of Newcastle. The event now referred to as the Indigenous Nationals will return to its birthplace at the Wollotuka Institute in 2021 and will welcome more than 30 universities from across Australia in a week-long celebration of sport, Indigenous culture and heritage.
In 2021 UniSport will launch the University Basketball League (UBL)
The UBL is endorsed by Basketball Australia and supported by the eight participating universities. The men's and women's teams will play in home and away fixtures with each participating university having the opportunity to host matches on campus. All matches will be livestreamed.
Since 2017, UniSport has also been a partner of the Aon Women's Uni 7s Series - the pinnacle women's rugby 7s competition in Australia offering the nation's rising talent the opportunity to train and play in a high-performance environment and be considered for national selection.
In 2021, UniSport will deliver an expanded UniMoves program - a wellbeing initiative promoting active students and staff on campus. Now in its second year, this will be rolled out at 15 universities across Australia.
UniSport's Chief Executive Officer, Mark Sinderberry commented: "The extensive program of UniSport events underpins our vision of Active Students: Lifelong Success. UniSport continues to demonstrate the value of sport through evidence-based advocacy - showing the positive impact that sport and recreation can have on the university pillars of recruitment, retention and engagement and alumni programs."
UniSport could not have achieved our longevity and continued growth without the talent and energy of our 43 member universities. In 2021, we will continue to engage with our members through working groups, webinars, forums and networking events.
UniSport will celebrate our first centenary with a number of activities across the year including a gala dinner at the National Conference in Sydney on 11 May and the UniSport Centenary Ball on 1 October at the Gold Coast following the conclusion of Nationals.
UniSport want to hear from you!
We invite all past and present students, athletes, volunteers, officials, university members Board, committees, life members, sporting organisations, corporate and government partners, and staff to contribute to our 100-year celebrations.
If you have any specific sporting achievements, memories, people to acknowledge or memorabilia to share, we'd love to see it! Please email admin@unisport.com.au.
We thank you for being an important part of UniSport and for helping us reach 100 years. We look forward to celebrating with you.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Air air pollution in 39 main northern Chinese language towns rose 16 % at the yr in January, professional knowledge confirmed, with surging commercial process making it more and more not going they're going to meet their iciness emissions goals.
Reasonable concentrations of small, hazardous debris referred to as PM2.five in two main northern Chinese language emissions regulate zones climbed 16 % from a yr previous to 114 micrograms in line with cubic metre, in step with Reuters research of professional air pollution knowledge.
China has vowed to not ease up in terms of combating air pollution even amid an financial stoop, however emerging emissions of lung-damaging smog final month means that some provinces may just fight to stability that function with an upturn in commercial manufacturing.
"The explanations for the will increase in PM2.five ranges aren't onerous to spot," stated Lauri Myllyvirta, power analyst with environmental workforce Greenpeace, who famous that metal, thermal energy and cement manufacturing surged all the way through the area within the ultimate quarter of 2018.
The worst performer over the month used to be the coal town of Linfen in Shanxi province, which noticed reasonable PM2.five ranges of 174 micrograms, up 23 % from a yr previous. Shijiazhuang, the provincial capital of Hebei, China's largest steelmaking area, additionally noticed emissions upward thrust 30 % to 144 micrograms.
China's professional air high quality same old is 35 micrograms, whilst the Global Well being Group recommends an annual reasonable of not more than 10.
Over the 3 months starting in November 2018, when coal-fired heating programs are switched on all the way through the north, reasonable PM2.five within the 39 towns reached 93.five micrograms, up 12 % at the yr.
Anyang, a coal and metal generating town in Henan province, used to be the worst performer over that length, with reasonable concentrations at 124 micrograms, up 27 %. Henan has blamed its deficient efficiency this iciness on "damaging climate prerequisites".
China's atmosphere ministry didn't reply to a request for remark. Then again, senior professional Liu Bingjiang advised newshounds final month that native governments can be held absolutely answerable for any screw ups, without reference to the elements.
Many of the towns are aiming to chop air pollution via Three % in comparison to 12 months previous, a long way less than final yr's goal of round 15 %. The compliance length additionally started a month previous in October, when air pollution is generally a lot decrease. Then again, they're nonetheless suffering to satisfy goals.
"With 4 months of the October-March length handed and two to move, it might take an overly steep 20-percent relief in February-March to get to the 3-percent relief goal," stated Myllyvirta.


What makes the grizzly bear a keystone species?
Grizzly bears are keystone species because as predators, bears keep down the numbers of several species, like moose and elk. They also carry and deposit seeds throughout the ecosystem. Bears that eat salmon will leave their dropping and the partially eaten remains that provide nutrients such as sulfur, nitrogen and carbon to the soil.
What does the Doppler Effect tell us about the formation of the Universe?
The Doppler Effect shows us that the spectral lines of a distant object in space shift toward the red end of the visible light spectrum because the universe is expanding.
The moving particles in an object have __________ energy.
A. Decreasing B. Increasing C. Kinetic D. Potential Kinetic energy is energy "in motion".


Martin Riese, restaurant manager for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, is a water sommelier.
What's a water sommelier? I'm glad you asked! Just as a wine sommelier devotes his life to wine, a water sommelier devotes his life to water.
And he's so excited about water, he's crafted his own 44-page sewn-bound water menu, complete with twenty different kinds of water from as close as Beverly Hills, to as far away as Fiji and Norway. And at the average price of $12 a bottle, he can you serve up you some pretty good water!
But if that's not good enough for you, you could always order a bottle of Berg water, straight from the island of Newfoundland. Derived solely from melted icebergs, (hence the name "Berg water"), it'll set you back about $20 a bottle.
Kona Nigari water will set you back even more, to the tune of $402 per bottle. And why not? It comes from the Big island of Hawaii and has been harvested from two thousand feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean.
And if that's still not good enough for you, you could order the most expensive water of all--the Beverly Hills 90H20 Luxy Collection Diamond Edition sourced from northern California's mountain springs, and instilled with potassium and calcium to enhance its taste and nutrients.
But it'll cost you! With it's beautiful, clear, cut-glass bottle and a 14-carat white gold cap, studded with black and white diamonds, it's the ultimate in water. It better be for $100,000!
Even more, in Bible times, water in the desert was like gold. To fill a person's well was an act of war.
We just can't live without water.
Now what I just read might sound awfully strange and boring, and you might wonder why it's even there.
But Moses wrote these words to give us a clue as to where they were, what they were doing, and where they were about to go. You see, at the time of this text, the people were at the end of forty long years of wilderness wandering, of following a cloudy pillar by day, and a fiery one at night, and sleeping out under the stars. So now, in just a few short weeks, Joshua would fight the battle of Jericho, and the people of Israel would finally enter their Promised Land.
But if you're travelling through the wilderness with that many people, (as many as three million!), not to mention with lots of flocks and herds, and for that long, (forty years!), there's one thing you're going to need a lot of--and that's water!
And the Lord knew that. That's why He often led them to wells, and even gushed out water from a rock.
But this time, it was different. This time, the people were out in the middle of a desert, and there was no well and no rock to be found.
To put it another way, it's easy to trust in God when our glasses are full. It's quite another when they're as dry as a bone.
And there's a second lesson we can learn from this text. It doesn't matter if our cup is empty or if it's full, JEHOVAH-JIREH, "the Lord provides," is still the name of our God.
Whatever you need, God will supply. Whenever you need it, God will supply. And however long you need it, God will supply. There's nothing that you could ever need, that God cannot supply.
And what strength and confidence that can give us! No matter who we are, no matter what we've done, no matter if we're full of faith, no matter if we sometimes doubt, God can supply our every need.
Then what did Israel do when the Lord promised to give them water? They sang a song, the second song ever recorded in the Bible.
Which is a little strange, if you think about it. When was the last time they sang a song? Forty years before, way back in Exodus chapter 15, just beyond the Red Sea! And now, finally, forty years later, they sing another song.
Then they went to work--verse 18: "the princes" and "the nobles" it says, with their staffs and scepters, their sticks and poles.
Kate Bowler is a 37-year-old professor of religious history at Duke University, and a mother of one--a little four-year-old boy. And after years of travel and study, she wrote a book on the Prosperity Gospel--its problems and its dangers.
But two years ago, when she was thirty-five, she went to the doctor complaining of severe stomach pains. At first, he assumed it was just her gallbladder. But after running some tests, he finally discovered it was stage-4 colon cancer.
Then came major surgery, as well as a series of cat-scans, pet-scans, immunotherapy, and experimental drugs. And every ninety days, she lies in a CT machine, with dye coursing through her veins, and doctors looking to see whether or not the tumors in her liver are growing. If they're not, she said, they smile and give her another three months to live, and schedule another exam.
That's when she began to realize just how fragile life really was. So she wrote another book, this one called, Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved.
That's when she learned, really learned, to put all her hope and trust in God.
Sometimes we need to learn that too, that even if we're in the middle of a desert, with no well or rock to be found, we can dig down, deep down, just like Moses' people once did, and find our strength in God.
Before we leave this text, there is one more thing I should mention.
Remember the story of Jesus and the time He stopped in that little town called Sychar and sat down beside a well? And as He sat beside that well, who should come along, but a poor, lonely, Samaritan woman.
Not only had she been married five times, the man she was living with wasn't even her husband. No one wanted her. No one wanted anything to do with her.


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Miracle material potential water pollutant
By James Sudlow2016-10-27T15:53:00+01:00
Researchers demonstrate toxic effects of graphene on aquatic life
By looking at the effects of graphene on water fleas, scientists in China have discovered that it may disrupt aquatic ecosystems, suggesting an unfortunate dark side to the wonder material.
Graphene, the poster child of carbon nanomaterials, has been extensively studied in recent years, and has shown great promise in fields ranging from materials chemistry to electronics and medicine. However, until now its toxicity to aquatic organisms has not been a serious concern.
Wenhong Fan and his team at Beihang University suspended a range of carbon nanomaterials in water and observed their effects on daphnids, also called water fleas, a model organism for water pollution tests. At concentrations above 0.5mg/l graphene significantly impaired their growth and reproduction over a period of 21 days. Fan speculates this is caused by adsorption of graphene onto the daphnids' surface. Other carbon nanomaterials, including buckminsterfullerene, single walled carbon nanotubes and multi-walled carbon nanotubes, proved more benign.
Source: © Royal Society of Chemistry
After 21 days in contaminated water, the daphnids were covered in graphene (far right, GN). Other materials (fullerenes/C60, single-walled carbon nanotubes/SWCNT, multi-walled carbon nanotubes/MWCNT) were barely adsorbed
This study is one of the first to demonstrate graphene's long-term ecological effects on aquatic organisms. 'The results of this study will be an important reference for the environmental risk assessment of graphene-related materials,' says Xinghui Xia, an expert in environmental science at China's Beijing Normal University.
'I think the results of [these studies] will provide extremely useful information for understanding the actual ecological toxicity effect of graphene. And, this study may set off alarm bells,' reflects Fan. 'The uncertainties surrounding graphene toxicity must be better resolved before its technological innovations can be fully realised.'
Many graphene-based materials are now entering the market, with modifications to their surface chemistry being used to optimise them for specific uses. Fan intendeds to expand his research to investigate the effects of such modifications on their toxicity.
This article is free to access until 12 December 2016
W Fan et al, Environ. Sci.: Nano, 2016, DOI: 10.1039/C6EN00361C
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Reflexive pronouns are used with a verb to indicate that a person performs an action to or for him/herself. In other words, the subject of the verb and the direct object of the verb are the same person. Therefore, reflexive pronouns match the subject of the verb. For example, in the sentence below, the person tú is the subject of levantar and bañar and is receiving these actions as well, as the object te.
En la mañana te levantabas y te levantabas a bañarte al río.
In the morning you got up and you got up to bathe (yourself) in the river.
Compare with the following non-reflexive use of levantar. Here Alma is being lifting up by someone else so she is the direct object me of the verb levantar.
Me amarraron muy fuerte para que no regara el veneno a mi cuerpo y me levantaron, inmediatamente para el hospital.
They tied me tightly so that poison wouldn't flow through my body and they lifted me up, immediately for the hospital.
You might notice how in the translation we don't always find a reflexive pronoun in English (ex. myself, yourself). That is because Spanish uses reflexive verbs much more frequently than English. You can read more about when reflexive verbs are used and how they compare to English on the reflexive verb page.
There are two places where reflexive pronouns can be placed.
Attached to the end of the verb, ONLY IF the verb is not conjugated, such as infinitives or gerunds or if the verb is an affirmative informal command.
In the following example, the reflexive pronoun me is placed before the conjugated verbs: podía, quedé, movía.
Encontré muchísimos soldados y pues, yo no me podía mover, sólo me quedé parada, porque si me movía, pues no había espacio para que ellos caminaran.
I came across tons of soldiers and well I couldn't move. I just remained standing because if I moved there wouldn't be enough space for them to walk.
In following example, the reflexive pronoun me, is found attached to the infinitives bañar and marear and before the conjugated verb metí and arrastré.
Me metí a bañarme y pues acabé de bañarme, pero empecé a marearme muy feo y entonces me arrastré hacia la puerta.
I got in to take a bath and I finished bathing but I started to get really dizzy and then I dragged myself to the door.


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Q: Send telegram from Raspberry Pi when button is pressed I am doing a project which uses Telegram on the Raspberry Pi. Currently, I am using a XBEE to read high inputs when the button is pressed. Currently, I am able to send SMS when the button is being pressed. I intend to implement telegram in my codes so that it will send both a SMS and also a Telegram message.I have also installed Telegram API on my RPI. How do include code to start the telegram server and send a message.
My codes are below,
if stat1.strip() in "Enable enable ENABLE":

            try:
                    recipient= ( )
                    for item in numbers:
                            recipient= item[0]
                            print recipient
                            gsm.send_sms(recipient, 'Panic activated!')
                            sendSmsNow = True
                            print "panic message sent"
                            time.sleep(5)

            except Exception as e:
                    print e

A: You can use python-telegram-bot for sending messages from Python to Telegram. There are some examples in the examples folder of the project.
The gist of it:
from telegram import Updater
import logging

# Enable logging
logging.basicConfig(
        format='%(asctime)s - %(name)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s',
        level=logging.INFO)

logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

# Define a few command handlers. These usually take the two arguments bot and
# update. Error handlers also receive the raised TelegramError object in error.
def start(bot, update):
    bot.sendMessage(update.message.chat_id, text='Hi!')

Check out the code here.


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It comes with an enormous level of gratitude that we welcome Xavier "Somniac" Nardella for yet another year alongside Dark Sided. Somniac has been a staple part of Dark Sided's identity since 2017 and as we continue to journey through the year, we are ensuring that the best player support is delivered.
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Brendan Howlin has also confirmed that external advisers will be drafted in to help with the complex process.
GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS HAVE met with a number of potential bidders for the National Lottery licence recently, it has been revealed.
According to Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Brendan Howlin, members of his department have been engaged with a number of "key stakeholders" in the competition for the licence, including interested parties. They have also met with retailer organisations who have been assured that it is the Government's intention to safeguard their margins under the terms of the next licence.
Howlin announced in April that a competition would be held for the 20-year-licence. Under the new agreement, a fixed percentage of 30.5 per cent of turnover will still have to be allocated for good causes.
Whoever wins the licence will also have to pay an upfront sum to the State, some of which will be used to help fund the building of the proposed new National Children's Hospital.
Responding to a parliamentary question from deputy Willie O'Dea, Howlin reiterated the need to revise the 1986 National Lottery Act, adding that his department is currently carrying out the necessary preparatory work with the Attorney General.
He expects to submit draft Heads of a Bill for Government approval in "the near future".
Given the complexity of the process, external advisers will be employed to assist, said Howlin. A request for tenders for a consultancy contract will be published shortly. Whoever wins that bidding war will provide advice in relation to the structure of the competition, preparation of the necessary documentation and assistance in the process of evaluating applications/bids for the new licence.
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